Simon joined the Fluidic Analytics team in 2020 in the role of Chief Technology Officer leading the research and development of the Fluidity platform and expansion of the company’s manufacturing capabilities into commercial-scale operations.

Throughout a 20-year career within the medical and life science industry he has worked in senior leadership roles within smaller emerging companies through to large multi-national organizations, taking innovative and disruptive technologies from the research phase through to market launch and into volume manufacturing.

Now CEO, his wide range of customer knowledge, and product development experience includes intravenous infusion devices, point of care molecular diagnostics platforms, and multiplex immunoassay analysis tools.

Prior to joining Fluidic, Peter spent 25 years as a healthcare investment banker, most recently as Managing Partner and Head of Healthcare Advisory Services at Catalysis Capital Partners Ltd, an investment banking boutique he co-founded in 2005. Prior to Catalysis, Peter was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Life Science Healthcare Investment Banking and Global Management Committee Member of Roberson Stephens, Inc., the international investment bank headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Peter began his career in the life science industry as Vice President, Finance and Operations at the Henri Beaufour Institute USA, Inc., a subsidiary of IPSEN SA in Paris, France.

Following her MSc in Strategic Human Resources Management she took the lead as head of HR at Cambridge Broadband Networks. Here she managed all aspects of HR processes, administration and strategy. After 5 years she began her own consultancy, offering HR support to a range of businesses in the tech industry from start-ups to big players. Cath Lee brings her strategic, professional and sensitive working style to all matters relating to HR at Fluidic Analytics.

Julian has over 27 years in leadership roles in the biotechnology industry, with vast experience of expansion of life sciences and technology companies, from start-ups through to IPO and maturation. Julian’s career has spanned a number of notable businesses, including Genetix Plc, Leica Microsystems, Leica Biosystems and Molecular Device, as well as his most recent role as Chief Scientific Officer and VP, New Ventures for Danaher Corporation.

He has worked in venture capital since 2001 and has invested in over two dozen high-technology companies – including Phonetic Arts (Google), ImSense (Apple), Sirigen (BD), Neul (Huawei), DanioLabs (Summit) and Quotient (EKF). He currently represents IQ Capital on the boards of Grapeshot, Thought Machine, Audio Analytic and several others. Max holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Tim is head of early stage investing at BGF and leads on life sciences and healthcare investments. He has been active in the venture capital and start-up ecosystem for over 20 years, initially as an entrepreneur and then as an investor with SoftBank, NEC and DFJ ePlanet Capital prior to joining BGF.

What is your role at Fluidic Analytics?

Beata is Head of Quality and Regulatory at Fluidic Analytics. Her responsibilities are the coordination of all Quality and Regulatory Compliance activities this involves providing guidance on all aspects of quality within a cross-functional team ensuring product quality and customer satisfaction. This requires working closely with all departments in the day-to-day management to ensure that productions and operations, from received materials to finished products, meet the organization’s quality, integrity, and efficiency standards. 

Tell us about your previous experience

Before joining Fluidic Analytics, Beata was the Group Quality Manager at Eurofins Chemtest Ltd. Her responsibilities included management and improvement of all quality related processes as well as maintaining ISO 17025 accreditation, and the maintenance and monitoring of tests and procedures site, ensuring that they are properly documented, understood, conducted, and evaluated. Previous to this, she was the Quality and Laboratory Manager at a Water and Waste Company in Poland where she was responsible for implementing the quality management system in the laboratory according to ISO 17025, carrying out internal and external audits, hosting client and regulatory visits and mentoring a team of analysts to help them develop the Quality System within the laboratory among other tasks. 

What are your interests outside of work? What do you do for fun?

Beata spends her spare time at her allotment pursuing her passions related to gardening. She is also a Cat lover and a mum of 3 cats – Alfie (3 years old), Venus (5 years old) and Candie (1.5 years old) as of course, they have chosen her to serve and spoil them. Beata also spends free time reading books, swimming, walking, visiting art galleries and museums, meditation and baking. 

What is your role at Fluidic Analytics?

Connie is Head of Strategic Marketing and the Field Applications team at Fluidic Analytics, responsible for a significant proportion of the customer-facing side of the business. In her role, Connie is accountable for all elements of marketing, from branding and tactical campaign delivery through to product and content marketing, ultimately delivering qualified leads to the sales organization. Connie also leads Fluidic’s team of Field Application Specialists, on-hand for customers to provide scientific advice and assistance for the installation and demonstration instruments, and the design of scientific applications.

Tell us about your previous experience

Prior to joining Fluidic Analytics, Connie spent the last six years in the DNA and RNA sequencing industry at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. As Associate Director for Technical Marketing and Scientific Communication, Connie led teams across content writing, publication management, product marketing and commercial marketing. Previous to commercial science roles, Connie spent a varied career in both lab settings and software development, informing her approach to industry.

What are your interests outside of work? What do you do for fun?

When not at work, Connie spends most of her time outside with her two dogs and two horses, the latter of which she competes in dressage. Connie is also a keen actor, dancer, singer and writer, and can often be found either rehearsing or producing performances.

What is your role at Fluidic Analytics?

Samita is Fluidic Analytics’ Legal Advisor, and has a role that spans from business development, to sales, to IP. Her day-to-day actions include ensuring the smooth running of commercial operations, ultimately responsible for non-disclosure, confidentiality, and terms of engagement with all of Fluidic’s business partners, including investors and shareholders. As well as her part in the legal operations of the company, Samita also holds the post of DPO (Data Protection Officer), responsible for maintaining secure processing of critical information across the business. 

Tell us about your previous experience

Prior to her role at Fluidic Analytics, Samita has held positions as both a commercial paralegal and IP paralegal dealing with industry wide non-contentious legal matters, gaining the experience needed to juggle complex commercial problems. Underpinning this experience, Samita comes from a strong background of family businesses, ultimately operating as a managing business partner in the jewellery sector. 

What are your interests outside of work? What do you do for fun?

Outside of work, Samita is a regular at her gym, maintaining an active and social lifestyle. Her key passion is to travel, spending her spare time across the world in new places.  

What is your role at Fluidic Analytics?

Daniel joined Fluidic Analytics in 2019 as the Group Financial Controller. He is responsible for all internal and external reporting and implementing scalable, efficient controls and processes. He also functions as a finance business partner across the company, providing insight and recommendations, and preparing budgets, forecasts, and finance models in collaboration with others to inform decision making. Daniel is also an active member of both our ESG and Social committees, with the aim of enhancing company culture. 

Tell us about your previous experience

Daniel is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) with an honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Bristol. He’s been working in finance for approximately 10 years and prior to Fluidic, he worked in London as the Group Financial Controller of an AIM listed international communications group, with a focus on technical financial reporting and system implementations. 

What are your interests outside of work? What do you do for fun?

Outside of work, Daniel is the Treasurer of, and plays the cello in, the Cambridge Philharmonic. He is a keen amateur musician, and also participates in chamber music. When he’s not playing music, he enjoys socialising and spending time with friends and family and going for walks with his dog. 

What is your role at Fluidic Analytics?

As Chief Scientist, Sean leads the development of internal applications, the protein interaction lab’s execution of applications to generate data for service customers, testing new applications and producing scientific data for the marketing team. Sean supports the data analytics team to generate and improve data fitting software and ensure its accurate implementation on Fluidic Analytic‘s data science tools platform. Finally, he works with the technical support team ensure our customers’ instruments operate as specified and experiments are successful.  

Tell us about your previous experience

Prior to joining Fluidic Analytics, Sean was a postdoc at Canterbury University focusing on protein oligomerization and engineering. This was followed by a second postdoc at Cambridge University (Dept of Biochemistry) on protein directed evolution and microfluidic droplets. 

What are your interests outside of work? What do you do for fun?

Outside of work, Sean enjoys cooking, gardening, brewing beer on a very small scale, and playing with his kids. 

What is your role at Fluidic Analytics?

As Head of Operations, Sergej, and his colleagues are responsible for the procurement for manufacturing and the manufacturing of the instrumentation and associated consumables. His position also oversees the operation team’s responsibilities which include inventory control & management, logistics and field service support functions for our products. 

Tell us about your previous experience

Before joining Fluidic Analytics, Sergej worked for 5 years at Gardasoft Vision Limited (Part of the Optex Group of Companies) in a role with very similar responsibilities. Gardasoft Vision Limited  designs and manufactures lighting pulse, lens & timing controllers for machine vision applications. Prior to Gardasoft, Sergej worked for 6 years at DNOW Capital Valves (formerly National Oilwell Varco) – in a project management role overseeing high-value valve manufacturing projects for the petrochemical, power, and industrial gases industries. Sergej’s early career years were spent in operational roles at eBags UK (eCommerce Start Up) and DHL Norway. Before transitioning into the traditional workspace and following his graduation from University, Sergej, played professional and semi-professional basketball for 5 years in Germany and Norway. 

What are your interests outside of work? What do you do for fun?

Family is very important to Sergej. Time spent with his family and close friends are key for him to unwind and find balance in life (and work). When he is not spending time with family and friends, he enjoys staying active (cycling, gym), reading books, and playing video games.